Blog Archive
Fantasy for Romance Readers – a guest blog by Victoria Janssen
I love romance for the same reasons I love other genres: intriguing characters with problems, who need others’ help to find solutions. In romance, the main romantic couple are generally the intriguing characters, and they help…
How a People-Pleaser Found Her Voice By Kristen Granata (and a giveaway!)
I first started writing Collision while sitting on my couch in a sling just after shoulder surgery. I had not turned thirty yet, and in addition to the excruciating shoulder pain, I was experiencing unhappiness in…
May TBR Challenge – Contemporary Romance
Sometimes in doing the TBR Challenge, we learn more about our reading habits than we realized. Since the May TBR Challenge prompt is contemporary romance, I went combing through my stacks – and came up almost…
Coming Soon… June 2018
Difficult as it is to believe, we’re heading into June and looking ahead to summer – and it’s time for AAR staffers to take a look at upcoming releases and choose the ones we’re most excited…
It’s time to pick the Top 100 Romances! Round Three of the Poll is up!
We had well over 3,000 votes in the first two rounds of this poll – wow! We knew you all were passionate about romance, but wow! We’ve now taken the top 150 books from both rounds…
The Art of Love: A Guest Post by Suzette D. Harrison
1930S – BOOTLEGGERS, PROHIBITION AND ROMANCE The Art of Love is Suzette Harrison’s contribution to the Decades: A Journey of African-American Romance project. For readers who may be unfamiliar with “Decades”, the series consists of 12…
Fond First Times… Our first experiences with romance novels
Most of us remember when we first started reading romance, who introduced us to it or how we discovered it ourselves, and – perhaps even – which book we first read.
